Brooke v. People

The plaintiff in error, as defendant below, was tried and convicted of the larceny of live stock, and sentenced to the state reformatory. To set aside the sentence he prosecutes his writ of error in this court.

1. The first error assigned is that the court improperly overruled the defendant’s challenge for cause to the juror Mason upon the ground that he was summoned on open venire from the bystanders, and had served upon a jury in a court of record within one year then last past, which, under Session Laws of 1891, p. 250, sec. 4, operates as a disqualification.

This assignment, under the…